i was a little kid goals and the problem may be where you are with was created in an exclusive arty interview the syrian president slams foreign backing for the rebels as the main cause for the escalating conflict in his country. barack obama sets up a military contingent in poland and plans not sanctions against iran just three days after his reelection. on the selective trip advice from tripoli libya is busy attracting tourists but visitors are being kept in the dark on tragedies like the violent siege and assault of bani walid.

it's eleven pm here in moscow a very good evening if you just joined us some kevin owen in this is r t syria's president says the conflict in his country's escalated because western powers of hand picked him as the latest bogeyman in an exclusive interview with r.t. bashar al assad warned that any direct foreign intervention in syria would spark a global disaster r.t. sophie shevardnadze spoke to the embattled leader in his capital. that he's not a western puppet he also denies to fuck that civil war is taking place in this country he's saying that it's not civil war it's a conflict where he has to fight different fractions of terrorism. and the fact that the financing of this terrorist actions was unprecedented and it was coming from abroad what he told me that if the finest were to stop then he would probably need about two weeks more to restore peace in his country and he also said that if the west were to intervene militarily it would have a domino effect from atlantic to pacific and no one would be gained from that and

he also said that west tends to create enemies for themselves like communism iraq saddam hussein and he feels that bashar al assad in syria is the new enemy not syria but him himself so he feels that the fact that conflict has asked elated it is because the west has created a new anime in the space wasn't it told that there wasn't a problem you know the way. it was. for different reasons they want between. the problem with the president he has to do first of all you have to focus on. what they say i asked him it's not just the west but a lot of countries have betrayed you on the first occasion why do you have so many so many enemies in the arab world he said well actually a lot of arab countries support me but they're afraid to say it out loud i asked him why it is because they're all under the strength and power of petrodollars i

also asked him about turkey and if the war with turkey was a real possibility and he didn't he doesn't believe that there's going to be an actual war with turkey but he also emphasizing the fact that the turkish people are the enemies of syrian people and they're always been a friendly nation it's carried on and his government that's the problem and that's against bashar and wants to all especially because god wants to reassure his and strengthen his political position in. and in the region personally thing that had been useful for the autumn and to keep control of it was during growth when you pull you. differently. which is. slimy but not go to money not to be ready for but in his how do you think that if i ask him do you regret anything what's your biggest mistake he says of course i have requests and of course i have made mistakes but when i ask him what is your biggest mistake he wouldn't give me a precise answer he said it's too early to talk about precise mistakes and precise regrets because the war or the conflict is still going on i also asked him if he

were to turn the clock back to fifteenth of march that's when the protests started to escalate would he do anything differently and he said no i wouldn't because within the marches within the protest marches there were people who started to shoot innocent civilians and the government forces so the government army had no other choice than to respond with force do what i did exactly the same exactly to think to. different parties to form. and to. just go but i always thought if you didn't thought you could because there will be little emotion but within those motions you have militants who thought that the civilians. at the same time so he said he wouldn't change much about a year and a half ago when the protests started to grow and escalate he would do exactly the same so he should announce there will he got a full exclusive interview with syria's president on here at ten thirty pm g.m.t. is also streaming we're going to see two and

a website. i'm serious. maybe if you. didn't bash our side in a hearty exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com prominent syrian dissidents and exiled opposition figures of meeting in cata to try and forge a broader alliance against a massacres the syrian national council which is the main umbrella group leading the conference earlier spoke to a prominent member of the s.n.c. who says it has little control over what's happening inside syria. your colleagues have been unable to unite the opposition over the past nineteen months of conflict and tens of thousands of people have been killed in that time how do you explain the lack of progress on your end to helping the syrian people not out decision it's you know our kids they do around wanting to find. a scent has to go

now. but the division within their house could go at any cost this huge human cost. of course. humanity and war crimes and this is why he's responsible should be held accountable in front of the international for international court is it not the case there is also blame the similar things and encourage the other side as well we've seen we've all witnessed a lot of videos posted online portraying atrocities allegedly committed by the free syrian army torture executions of prisoners what's your organization doing to rein in the rebels that. basically the humor is very relations even down to the committed by groups sick can be sure there are as. for the f.e.c. for the free syrian army this is why we don't know exactly these. crimes a lot of iran's relations committee and by individuals are. members of

god just armed groups or maybe i should be you saying they used to really have control of a lot of these people and the rebels appear to be openly rather a campaign of intimidation targeting assad supporters there have already as you know so been a number of high profile murders including the murder of famous syrian actor what are you going to do to achieve control better in the very near future than we cannot see that we don't have any any any contact or we do but it's still very difficult. because if you think of these security when washington said your council needs to be closer to the fight it appeared that you moved you headquarters to syria when the u.s. said you need a broader coalition at a page called the meeting in qatar that meeting was happening now is this all coincidence or is it washington calling the shots. we added or more women and more christian we and our whited with all the immunities

and guards. morning. different in different sects inside syria. barack obama's second term sort of just beginning and he's already been making bold steps in the international arena to the u.s. is forced to touch me to serve as warplanes in poland which is pressed washington for security guarantee against a perceived threat from russia and u.s. lawmakers are also reportedly preparing new sweeping sanctions against iran targeting its foreign business transactions that's on top of the latest round of restrictions imposed by barack obama just reelected to the strains widely between america and iran to the pentagon revealed that the jets fired a u.s. drone flying off around coast last week. with retards. president obama's first moves after he won reelection have pretty much indicated that in the next four years he will aggressively pursue the idea of the u.s. being the world police ministration has imposed financial sanctions against iranian

officials so the u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access any rain that comes on top of a whole bunch of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s. which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing we heard reports that the obama administration might engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation that. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the view was might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say the said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and

possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear. everybody hit by those drones are terrorists and the administration so far has been far from transparent on how they pick the targets and basically authorize executions overseas the un has raised concerns about the legality of such executions there has been a lot of criticism especially after numerous reports of civilian deaths in the meantime this administration is said to rely on drones more and more and other drone related story this week the pentagon said the reunion military had fired upon but did not hit a you was drone flying close to the pentagon claimed the drone was there on a surveillance mission so looking at some of president obama's first moves after reelection one could say he takes the idea of america being the world police very seriously but the question is who's going to hold that world police itself

accountable. in washington the well pole is already heading washington's move to make it military deployment on its soil but don't hold it american all through the story told me it would be wise of war sold to change its choice of. our moore's law be very much concerned right now russia is a very powerful neighbor it has many allies across the globe it's a military power as well as an economic power in that part of the world and quite frankly it doesn't make that much sense for warsaw to come its nose at such a powerful neighbor and i would hope and imagine that there would be a reconsideration of their foreign policy sooner rather than later washington is now turning its focus first of all to china. to a certain degree towards iran although keep in mind that because of the escalation of oil production in the united states itself through various techniques such as fracking getting it from shale oil as. oil there is

a possibility that the united states will not be as dependent upon that part of the world for petroleum which could lead to a reconsideration of its military empire in that part of the rural the problem of course is that the israeli lobby is very potent in the united states of america and israel has been making noise this is you well know about attacking iran and if there's a real does attack iran it will be very difficult for washington to stand down it will inevitably be dragged into that very dangerous conflict and therefore it makes sense not to escalate sanctions against iran but to engage in dialogue with iran. selling holidays by hushing up instabilities reporting on but. it is tourist hot spot but later we have travel agents of being accused west of the silent so. it's just.

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the company are naughty tonight now libya is described as many things but have you ever considered it is a holiday hotspot believe it or not some people do although there is of course one glaring omission among the the siege ravaged city of bani walid sara first reports that on the travel agents hiding tragedy from the tourists. we're here at the world travel market a trade show you taking place in london or people can consulates their holiday inspiration or that scouts exotic spot for a honey way one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist destination and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting the

site is a political sideshow it's completely safe guaranteed it's got to be safe more than even towns to break downs like london new york but there's somewhere there's not mentioned in the guide book bani walid a desert town is remaining loyal to formally to colonel gadhafi it's just a few hours drive south east of the traditional tourist destination tripoli but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. the town's become the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since the libyan uprising last year but despite reports of indiscriminate shelling and gas attacks on the local population at the hands of the libyan army there's been an almost total media blackout in the k. r.t. run story for more than a fortnight before anyone else picked it up back in london and despite libya being shake aced it seems that bani walid has once again being conveniently left out of

the conversation when i saw this then it was a ghost with surprise and i came to to others of feedback of the situation at the moment in libya and if we have so many people there it means our situation is that it becoming more stable and we can think for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so we are we would about what's happening at the moment i knew were legal but do you mean what's happened was been happening there's been fighting do you know about that no we went to confront the tour operator i saw you speaking some people eat telling them about what's been happening in benny walid at the moment. this is a blog. it's coming for the future. there's a reason because it was deeply disturbing is that despite a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal concerns from human rights organizations ek media and government remain resolutely

silent we've got to sort of package this as a success it's very important for nato so we have the sort of speed of these countries have been liberated in inverted commas as great places to go great places to invest and the reality for the everyday person in these countries is a living hell really pick up one of their travel information then you'll be given reasons to visit libya and undoubtedly there are many there's a concerning finding this in a case by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to talk about what's been happening in places like that anyway the reality is that the new government is struggling to control its militias and bridge the deep divides that remain in the country but none of that you are going to read about in across the. surface r.t. london one of the libya's government says bani walid is recovering fast after armed militias left the city in virtual ruins but we spoke to a man whose family lived through that very siege and he's asked us to shield his identity for his safety when he told us there is still no peace in bani walid.

government. of militias that. are killing innocent citizens in. city leave you these militias out of looking all supplies now. this included minutes in food. that a life in the sixty's they are destroying with guns and bullets and use. of but. this is against all the international laws. how you. know if i do want to be able to night and this young fellow who tool to another to. be able. you didn't do their business and only get the united states was. a bigger ticket. with

bombs and guns in your body than that if it were not a day now now that i was guided and i mean the government of libya to rise you believe in bieber. developing you story tonight from bahrain thousands of shia muslims have been violently stopped from attending friday prayers the police used tear gas as people tried to gather for worship in the capital manama led by a prominent leader of the country's opposition at least one person died during a crackdown police public of a drug that were banned last week to stem the regime protests among the shia population state attempts to suppress dissent have seen up to eighty people killed dozens of arrested since february last year just over these developments tonight we're joined by political analyst patrick henningsen on the line from london hi patrick evening thousands of people stopped from going to friday president mentioned a significant step. you know this is a president it move by the government as you know the. violations have been

chalking up left right and center for the last year but what we're seeing now is a real effort to accentuate the division between shia and sunny in this in this country only last week kevin news horrible incident where there was a double bombing in a neighborhood and that was blamed on pro reformers or terrorists forty to the government but little evidence has been presented to show that it was done by these people and what it's effectively done it's given the government carte blanche to really crack down right now on any pro reform movements by the reformist shiite majority in that country how long can this go on it's been going on for a long time already but you know when's it going to come to a page if it comes to a page you know i think look look at that look at bahrain it's so key strategically

for britain in the united states and also for israel when we're looking at the possibility of in circling iran which is almost complete right now and we're looking at israel or the us going green light on an attack on iran some time in two thousand and thirteen possibly this time next year perhaps or after that you know that i think washington and london have more or less given. the go ahead for the bahraini role family and that and that government that autocracy to really go hard and fast and drop the hammer down on any pro reform movements and that's exactly what we've seen so far so i go ahead it's interesting to see while we haven't seen much coverage of it just like the story we're talking about in fact in libya there the problems in bani walid that we were talking about it would many others what same thing here is not yet despite all this that it'll coverage about. right in the media wife so little interest well if you look at you know william hague and quit

hillary clinton gallivanting around with the friends of syria meetings accusing the assad government of crimes against humanity you only have to look at bahrain to look at a litany of crimes there revoking nationality of protesters right now there are they blaming the latest bombing on his ball as if hizbollah has any any connection with bahrain so not be able rajab who to me is a modern day nelson mandela type character a genuine reformer i've really watched his progress over the last few years and i've the upmost respect for this guy he's going to have his appeal denied next week by the the all talk we see in bahrain so you know you're up loves bahrain they go down there are loads of money in the country formula one grand prix every year and loads of oil coming out of that country there's absolutely zero chance of any democratic reform in this country and this is a country the absolutely needs it patrick thanks for the program patrick had to

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accounts for this victory was it a well run campaign in changing demographics or was it a campaign for the republicans to lose does obama now have a solid mandate and what is the future of the g.o.p. . cross-talk american politics after the election i'm joined by two crosstalk usual suspects stephen lesser in new york he is host of the blog talk radio show making sense with steve lesser and a partner at democratic spring strategies and in paris we cross to rachel mars than she is a political communications strategist and a syndicated columnist all right folks you both put on the program before so you understand how crosstalk rules work steve if i go to you first what is the primary reason the number one reason why your man and everyone knows that your man won the election. well there's two or three main reasons but if you want to know the number one reason i think that the american people gave president obama credit for.